I'll write about it more in the next backer update, but I had a crisis of faith about doing the GBA fire emblem visual-novel style for conversations. The fact that all the characters are facing head-on made it look like an awkward zoom call.
So we threw it out and redesigned the whole thing as more of a free-form Tales of Symphonia/Gravity Rush/The World Ends With You-esque comic panel thing! I feel soooo much better about this than the old one.